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Federal agents served a search warrant this week at a Springfield firearms accessories store operated by a man who has worked as a reserve sheriff's deputy for several counties in the Ozarks.

No officials will say what the Homeland Security Investigations agents were looking for - or whether they found any contraband - during Wednesday's search at Dark Ops Holdings, 2231 W. Sunset St.

However, the operator of the company, Charles Frank Miller, told the News-Leader the agents were there to retrieve rifle scopes made in China that he was duped into thinking were American-made. Miller, 58, ...